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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

St. Clair explains that he once acted professionally and later became a newspaper reporter. To research begging, he used stage makeup and discovered that a convincing disguise could earn an unexpected amount of money. Having described the first experiment, he turns to the financial pressure that made him repeat it.

"I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ served upon me for £ 25.「記事を書き、それ以上あまり考えずにいましたが、しばらく後、友人の手形の裏書人になり、二十五ポンドの支払いを求める令状を受けました。
I was at my wit's end where to get the money, but a sudden idea came to me.金をどう工面するか困り果てましたが、不意に思いついたのです。
I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise.債権者に二週間の猶予を頼み、勤め先に休暇を願い出て、その間は姿を変え、シティで物乞いをしました。
In ten days I had the money and had paid the debt.十日で金がたまり、借金を返しました。
"Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous work at £ 2 a week when I knew that I could earn as much in a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on the ground, and sitting still.「顔に少し色を塗り、帽子を地面に置いて座るだけで、一日に二ポンド稼げると知ってしまえば、週二ポンドのきつい仕事に落ち着くのがどれほど難しいか、お分かりでしょう。
It was a long fight between my pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets with coppers.誇りと金との長い争いになりましたが、最後は金が勝ち、私は記者を辞めました。最初に選んだ街角で毎日座り、恐ろしい顔で同情を誘い、ポケットを銅貨で満たしたのです。
Only one man knew my secret.秘密を知る者は一人だけでした。
He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings transform myself into a well-dressed man about town.昔スワンダム横丁で下宿していた、いかがわしい店の主人です。そこで毎朝、みすぼらしい物乞いになって外へ出て、晩には立派な服の都会の紳士に戻ることができました。
This fellow, a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that my secret was safe in his possession.船員出身のその男には部屋代を十分払っていたので、彼が秘密を漏らす心配はないと分かっていました。